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| Cadence Offers Real-Time DFM for PCB Designers Cadence Design Systems provides Cadence Allegro PCB DesignTrue DFM technology that performs real-time, design-for-manufacturing (DFM) checks integrated with electrical, physical and spacing design rule checks (DRCs). The technology, integrated into the Allegro PCB Editor, enables PCB designers to identify and correct errors immediately, long before manufacturing sign-off. By finding errors earlier, design teams reduce rework, shorten design cycles, and accelerate the new product development and introduction process. That potentially can save at least one day per iteration and days to weeks overall. Unlike manufacturing signoff tools that are run in batch mode when performing DFM checks, DesignTrue DFM technology provides continuous in-design feedback while designing. This eliminates the frustrating and time-consuming design-verify-fix iterations between PCB designers and DFM checking teams. By the time PCB designers reach final DFM sign-off, they already know their design meets manufacturing rules. All of that results in a smoother sign-off and hand-off to the manufacturing partner and a shorter, more predictable design cycle. PCB Technology Leadership Awards Announced Mentor has announced its 27th annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards. Started in 1988, this program is the longest running competition of its kind in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. It recognizes engineers and designers who use innovative methods and design tools to address today's complex PCB systems design challenges and produce industry-leading products. Prominent experts in the PCB industry judged entries from around the world in categories that represent a wide variety of industries. The PCB Technology Leadership Awards contest was open to any designs created with Mentor PCB solutions. Judging is based on design complexity and overcoming associated challenges, such as small form factor, high-speed protocols, multi-discipline team collaboration, advanced PCB fabrication technologies, and design-cycle time reduction. 2017 Technology Leadership Award Winners Category: Best Overall Design - Company: Fujitsu Augsburg
- Design team: Simon Czermak, Michael Schreittmiller, Sergej Beljaev, Andreas Titz, Mario Lanteri, Markus Wicher, Werner Hasubick, Peter Bräu, Nikola Skordev, Dieter Feiger
- Using: Xpedition Enterprise
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Altium has completed an exclusive preview tour of its Altium Designer 18 at a series of global PCB design conferences. Altium Designer continues its focus on delivering new, easy-to-use, and productivity enhancing PCB design tools as part of a single, unified application. Leveraging feedback and  suggestions from the design community, Altium Designer 18 features capability updates and performance optimizations to significantly enhance user experience and productivity. In addition to the easy-to-use, modernized user interface, Altium Designer 18 will also feature a much anticipated upgrade to 64-bit architecture and multi-threading for greater stability, speed, and functionality. These updates will allow designers to increase their design speed and task execution and will also provide more flexibility and control, simplifying the overall design process Real-time BOM management in Altium Design 18 links the latest supplier part information to the BOM, enabling users to make educated design decisions on their own timeline. A new, cohesive user interface provides a fresh and intuitive environment and optimizations that enable unparalleled visualization of your design workflow. Fast and high-quality routing is provided by visual constraints and user-guided automation. CONTINUE READING Win a Free CD with a Year's Worth of Circuit Cellar Content!  This week's newsletter raffle is for a 2016 archive CD of Circuit Cellar magazine. Enter the drawing using the link below. The CD contains PDFs for 12 issues and the associated article code files. A $40 value! Drawing ends at midnight this coming Friday. And congratulations to last week's raffle winner, Thilo L., who won a free year subscription to Circuit Cellar! Thanks to all who participated! |
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Zuken and XJTAG have entered into a partnership to enhance Zuken's CR-8000 with a design for test (DFT) capability that will improve test coverage during schematic entry. The capability is based on XJTAG's DFT Assistant and will be available later this year as a free plugin for Zuken's CR-8000 Design  Gateway users. CR-8000 is a native 3D product-centric design platform for PCB-based systems. CR-8000 directly supports architecture design, concurrent multi-board PCB design, chip/package/board co-design, and full 3D MCAD co-design. CR-8000 Design Gateway is Zuken's platform for logical circuit design and verification.
Increasingly, PCBs are densely populated making it difficult to gain manufacturing test access to pins under many packages, such as ball grid arrays (BGAs). JTAG was designed to enable test access, so an optimized JTAG design can have a positive impact on ROI. Failure to optimize JTAG test coverage at an early design stage can increase manufacturing costs and possibly require a board re-design. XJTAG DFT Assistant will help to validate correct JTAG chain connectivity while displaying boundary scan access and coverage onto the schematic diagram through full integration with CR-8000 Design Gateway.
For nearly 30 years, Circuit Cellar has built a reputation as the leading technical resource for professional engineers. Today, the magazine has a new Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Child, giving a fresh look, expanded coverage, and  putting today's key technologies in context. We'll delve into critical trends in technologies such as microcontrollers, analog ICs, and embedded boards; but also feature in-depth stories exploring how other like-minded engineers applied those technologies to their product designs. Today we're making the October 2017 issue of Circuit Cellar available as a sample issue. In it, you'll find a rich variety of the kinds of articles and information that exemplify a typical issue of the current magazine. Don't miss out on upcoming issues of Circuit Cellar. Click Here and subscribe today!
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